Chaps
Chaps opens cold and herbaceous: clary sage and lavender stitched to lime peel, with anise pricking the edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Lavender60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Anise
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readChaps opens cold and herbaceous: clary sage and lavender stitched to lime peel, with anise pricking the edges. The first half-hour reads like a barbershop with the door propped open onto a cedar porch.
As the citrus burns off, jasmine softens into sandalwood and patchouli, and the moss anchors everything to the ground. The honey is barely there — more a warmth than a sweetness — and the tonka pulls the dry-down into something almost edible without ever crossing into dessert.
This is a fougère in the old American mold: dressed up but not formal, rugged but not rough. It belongs on a wool blazer in October.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
